Google rolls out new tool to remove your data from search results

At the I/O 2022 conference in May, Google announced a new tool to simplify the process of deleting search results containing your contact details and other personal information. Now, a few months later, it is finally being implemented. Writes about it 9to5Google.

Users began to report about the beginning of distribution of this tool. They discovered its appearance in the Google app on Android. It is called "Results about you" (Results about you) and is available in the profile menu by clicking on the avatar in the upper right corner.

This new menu item takes you to a page that explains how you can ask Google to delete search results containing a phone number, home address, email address, or other personal information. Your data found in the issue will also be there.

By clicking on the ellipsis to the right of each result, you can go to the delete option. Google will ask you for a reason and then show the status of your request (Approved or In Progress).

Google has previously noted that takedown requests evaluate all content on a web page in order to the disappearance of some information did not limit access to other useful information, for example, in news articles. And, of course, removing contact information from Google search does not remove it from the web.

The manual removal tool has just begun to spread. If you urgently need to delete data, you can now send a request from this pages, which details Google's privacy policy.